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If you haven’t already, you need to connect your USB stick to your computer. How to Create Bootable USB Drive with Ventoy In addition, Ventoy provides Legacy and UEFI Secure Boot support, supports ISO files larger than 4GB, and can be updated without reformatting the USB device. Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. The USB drive does not need to be formatted, and you can copy as many ISO files as you want. It can be used to create a bootable and permanent drive that can even contain more than one distribution at a time. Ventoy is an open-source tool for creating bootable USB drives.

Whenever you want to try a new Linux distribution, you download the ISO image from the distributions website and write this to your USB flash drive using the dd command or with the help of some other tool, such as Balena Etcher.īut now, a software tool called Ventoy changes all that. Instead, copy the ISO file to the USB drive and boot it. With Ventoy, you don’t need to format the USB drive for each new installation.

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